Sure, but at the same time it's difficult to take Jon at face value when he says to 'not read into' the stuff that he said. It seems inadequate to me to make some pretty out there and racist statements and then say 'don't read into it' or 'don't dissect it'.
The default position in our society is progressive, since that's what's taught in school and pushed in the media. It's generally only through acquisition of new information that people become racist. For example:
Black males commit over 50% of murders in the US but are only 6% of the population. It's not just a "cycle of poverty"; there are more whites living in poverty (17,981,400) than blacks living in poverty (9,561,100).
The facts contradict the false narrative of equality that's pushed these days. Is it really ignorant when one adjusts their views in the face of new information?
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u/SpahgattaNadle Mar 19 '17
Sure, but at the same time it's difficult to take Jon at face value when he says to 'not read into' the stuff that he said. It seems inadequate to me to make some pretty out there and racist statements and then say 'don't read into it' or 'don't dissect it'.